Music of Mexican composers Carlos Chávez and Manuel Ponce, plus Spaniard Manuel de Falla conducted by Leonard Bernstein, José Serebrier, and Pierre Boulez. Hear soloists Sharon Isbin (guitar) Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), and Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano).

In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez conduct three French works: the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas, the Symphony No. 3 by Roussel, and the Mother Goose suite by Ravel. We’ll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto from the keyboard.

This broadcast celebrates Margaret Hillis, founder and first director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, featuring three Grammy Award-winning recordings. Bartók’s Cantata profana led by Pierre Boulez is the centerpiece, bookended by an excerpt from Brahms’ German Requiem and Verdi’s monumental Requiem, both under the baton of eighth music director Sir Georg Solti.

Including highlights from Dvořák, Copland, and Corigliano.

Including performances conducted by the composer himself.

This week, we hear Jakub Hrůša’s CSO debut concert program, Smetana’s Má vlast. Opening the broadcast is Pierre Boulez conducting Mahler’s Totenfeier from a 1996 Deutsche Grammophon recording.

No one was more pivotal in 20th century classical music than Igor Stravinsky. We rank his definitive top 10 works.

This week, a special broadcast from the CSO’s Archives. Pierre Boulez, the CSO’s Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, leads Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 (Drum Roll) and Ligeti’s Piano Concerto featuring soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The program continues with Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin.

Maestros Barenboim, Boulez, and Solti conduct the CSO with the Chicago Symphony Chorus under the direction of chorus founder Margaret Hillis.

Pierre Boulez conducts two historic performances taken from the orchestra’s archives, with one featuring the great Jessye Norman.

Sanders was the last active member of the legendary Frank Miller-helmed CSO cello section.

The broadcast features works by Wagner, Mahler, Stravinsky, Berg, Debussy and Carter plus some of Mr. Boulez’s own music.

This broadcast celebrates the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s second music director Frederick Stock!

Music by Carlos Chávez, Manuel Ponce, and Manuel de Falla.

Boulez conducts Debussy, Ravel, and Ligeti.

Pierre Boulez conducts Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, featuring Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Dudamel is scheduled to conduct three performances of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in May.

Time once called Rorem “the world’s best composer of art songs,” and he was notable for his hundreds of compositions for the solo human voice.

“I’ve been very lucky. Not only did I get the world’s best job, but I also got to work closely with the world’s best conductors: Barenboim, Muti, Boulez, Haitink, you name it!”

After six years as music director, van Zweden’s will be the shortest tenure of anyone in a half-century.

September is National Piano Month, so WFMT is sharing a supersized playlist – with one selection corresponding to each key on the keyboard.

Featured in the eleven new programs is a wide array of music conducted by Muti, including selections by Bruckner, Berlioz, and Verdi. Additional programs are dedicated to performances conducted by Fritz Reiner, Pierre Boulez, and Bernard Haitink.

Andrew Patner, WFMT’s late critic-at-large and music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, passed away in 2015, but his characteristic wit and wisdom live on in his book, A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti.

Katia and Marielle sat down to share their passion for rarely-performed gems, their love of new music, and how living composers have helped them find the freedom that fuels their artistry.

Concert halls today are so architecturally innovative that the buildings themselves draw visitors. The venues on this list are so spectacular, they’ll be sure to have you checking to see just how many more vacation days you have left.